On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Am Die, den 18.05.2004 schrieb Michael Banck um 1:28: > > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:03:51AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > > Would it be an acceptable sollution, if we would hand out burned CDs > > > on request? > > > > Not entirely related to this, but still: Somebody said we'd have a full > > mirror available. So perhaps we could have put up signs saying 'CDs for > > the following architectures available on demand'. If somebody cares > > about powerpc or whatever, we could burn them a CD which he could fetch > > later on. I've read that in a report from a UK trade show once and it > > sounded pretty cool. This should get automated as much as possible I > > guess. > > > I just succeeded in building a dual-bootable i386/powerpc image. It's > just a combination of the i386 and powerpc netinst beta4 images and some > manual hacking in the Release file. You can find the image and the > script I used to burn the image on > > http://www.soziologie.ch/~steinlin/d-i/netinst-ppc-i386/ > > This probably needs some more testing, to be sure it is really bootable > on the majority of i386 and powerpc hardware. > > If you are still interested in dual-boot images for LinuxTag I will try > to automate and improve this process.
( Oo Chips, this could become a ME TOO thread ;- ) I'm interest in a CD that boots both of the popular architectures. > > Gaudenz Cheers Geert Stappers P.S. What is a proper way to keep both mailinglist, -eu-events & -boot, informed? Cross-posting?
